Monuments to Eisenhower and other presidents

March 18, 2013

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Roosevelt was still president in 1943, when the memorial was dedicated. Similarly to the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson memorial contains a 19-foot-tall statue of its subject. But Jefferson is standing, and bronze.

John Adams, Jefferson's rival and the second president of the United States, doesn't have a memorial in Washington, D.C., but there is a movement to create one.

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Roosevelt was still president in 1943, when the memorial was dedicated. Similarly to the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson memorial contains a 19-foot-tall statue of its subject. But Jefferson is standing, and bronze.

John Adams, Jefferson's rival and the second president of the United States, doesn't have a memorial in Washington, D.C., but there is a movement to create one.